A civic feature that helps Americans find out to vote right from within Google Search, in partnership with VIP and Democracy Works

• Google

• Voting and elections
• Civic features
• Find your polling place

Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.

• Google
• commercial

• Civic data
• Research tools

A comprehensive collection of six years of telemetry data from three Google buildings, providing real-world insights for developing and validating optimal control solutions.

• Climate action
• buildings
• Google

• Civic data
• Environmental data

A powerful tool designed to train reinforcement learning agents to optimize energy consumption and minimize carbon emissions in buildings.

• buildings
• Google
• Climate action

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Environmental data

"Nevada plans to launch a generative AI system powered by Google that will analyze transcripts of unemployment appeals hearings and issue recommendations to human referees about whether or not claimants should receive benefits."

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Access social benefits
• Generative AI

Google Research is applying AI to satellite and aerial imagery to build a Heat Resilience tool, helping cities understand how to reduce surface temperatures through planting trees or using highly-reflective surfaces, like cool roofs.

• cities
• heat
• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

A platform dedicated to monitoring and exposing censorship in Google Play Stores worldwide. We hope this initiative will be a step towards greater transparency and the promotion of digital freedom.

• Google

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The Google News Initiative works with publishers and journalists to fight misinformation, share resources and build a diverse and innovative news ecosystem.

• Google

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic teams at tech companies

Just like how we use AI to detect sidewalks, street signs and road names in satellite imagery to display helpful information in Google Maps, we’ll also use AI to identify oil and gas infrastructure, like oil storage containers, in our imagery. Then, we’ll combine it with EDF’s information about oil and gas infrastructure to locate where the emissions are coming from.

• Google
• Climate action
• methane

• Civic maps
• Civic features
• Satellites

Cycling updates to Google Maps now take account of traffic conditions and the availability of high-quality cycling infrastructure

• cycling
• cities
• Google

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Public Private Partnerships

Google Cloud's public sector division

• Google

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Civic teams at tech companies

Explore and analyze large collections of documents. By Google Journalist Studio.

• Google

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Research tools

Harassment Manager is a web application that aims to empower users to document and take action on abuse targeted at them on online platforms.

• Google
• anti-harassment
• hate speech

• Solidarity networks

"Google is working with non-profit groups like No Kid Hungry and FoodFinder, as well as the US Department of Agriculture, to aggregate 90,000 locations with free food support across all 50 states — with more locations to come." - Andrew J. Hawkins

• Google
• Zero hunger

• Civic maps
• Access social benefits

Our union strives to protect Alphabet workers, our global society, and our world. We promote solidarity, democracy, and social and economic justice.

• Google
• labor

• Civic tech unions

An algorithm that attempts to analyze which information the YouTube algorithm is showing to people.

• Google
• YouTube

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

• Google

Across Maps, Search, Nest, Flights, and Shopping

• Climate action
• Google

• Civic features

How can technology make people in the world safer?

• Google

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Important alerts from across the web when and where they are needed most.

• Google

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The Digital News Innovation Fund (DNI Fund) is a European programme that's part of the Google News Initiative, an effort to help journalism thrive in the digital age.

• Google

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

At Google, we believe that AI can provide new ways of approaching problems and meaningfully improve people’s lives. With AI, we have another tool to explore and address hard, unanswered questions.

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

Our fellowship gives undergraduate and graduate students a paid opportunity to spend 10-weeks diving head first into Internet policy at leading nonprofits, think tanks and advocacy groups.

• Google

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

BigQuery is a fast, economical and fully managed enterprise data warehouse for large-scale data analytics.

• Google

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

Project Shield uses Google’s infrastructure to protect independent news sites from distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), a type of digital attack that exploits thousands or even millions of computers to overwhelm a website’s servers and take it offline.

• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

Explore the far reaches of the world, right in your browser.

• Google

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

A collection of national and regional-scale layers related to weather, hazards, and emergency preparedness and response, mostly for the US.

• crisis
• Google
• humanitarian

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

• Google

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Google team focused on election information and civic features within Google products

• Google

• The People
• Build something
• Civic features

The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate

• Google

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

We bring the best of Google to help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges — combining funding, innovation, and technical expertise to support underserved communities and provide opportunity for everyone.

• Google

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Civic Information API allows you to build applications that allow citizens and voters to know about their political representation and voting locations.

• Google

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Data schemas and standards

It gives you the free tools you need to analyse data for your business in one place, so you can make smarter decisions.

• commercial
• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

The news has always played an essential role in our lives, keeping us informed about the world and the issues we care about.

• civic features
• Google

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Google Person Finder helps people reconnect with friends and loved ones in the aftermath of natural and humanitarian disasters.

• Google

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

An easy-install kit to help commercial buildings cut energy costs.

• buildings
• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

• Smart Cities and sensors

Over a thousand cities and other public sector partners are already working with Waze to gain better data and insights; reduce driving alone with Waze Carpool; and to make their communities safer with Waze's Beacons and Crisis programs.

• civic features
• Google
• mobility

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

A dedicated dashboard to understand coronavirus searches

• Google

• Data visualization
• COVID
• Dashboards

Explore what the world is searching

• commercial
• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Aclima announces a new partnership with Google Earth Outreach to map and better understand outdoor air quality.

• Google

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Colab notebooks allow you to combine executable code and rich text in a single document, along with images, HTML, LaTeX and more.

• Google

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools